The Conversation
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Colin: I’m pretty sure Jeremy Lin and his supporters are not the same person.
- colin: I was pretty impressed with Lin, until some digging around leads me to believe he’s more interested in...
- Eurasian Sensation: Why does anyone give a shit? The US is the global capital of people loudly claiming their love...
- What Cultures Value (21)
- “But he hit me back first!” (37)
- colin: It’s taboo to speak this truth in America, but here it is: Blacks are as racist as, if not more than,...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ Raguel: It’s interesting that you raise the Indonesian Chinese, as there are indeed some...
- Raguel: As heated as the debate has become I think that it has been productive. The perspectives raised, unpopular or...
- Seeking Asian Female (7)
- King: “If I ever get a mail order bride I will get her addicted to sex first.” I assume you mean with you...
- bigWOWO: Linda, Haha! Maybe that dude is on to something with the foreign language nagging. But to be honest, maybe...
- raguel: LOL @ Chen and traumatic comedy XD The more I discover about mail-order marriages the more horrible the...
- About A Boy by Nick Hornby (6)
- bigWOWO: That’s a really good point, Raguel. Like it or not, TV executives control everything (including what...
- Raguel: I could be wrong but the distribution windows for media and especially film seems very hierarchical. If you...
- bigWOWO: Illegal streaming? I had no idea anyone did that! Well, I really should check out some movies one of these...
- Superbowl Recipe and Xenophobic Superbowl Ad (22)
- Raguel: Time to get your concealed carry licences, folks!
- Eurasian Sensation: Jeff Yang has a good article about this ad: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn....
- Raguel: I haven’t even gotten to why the ad really is so offensive to us, ROFL
- Jeremy Lin shines (20)
- N: @danny You should youtube his college games. The two against Boston college and the one against UConn. Lol, he can...
- Lingyai: @Ben Efsaneyim Why would it be surprising a non Asian crowd cheering for Lin? Most of the NBA fans going to...
- bigWOWO: Danny and Mojo, Holy crap! That’s amazing! I didn’t know he could dunk either! I think...
- Stop SOPA and PIPA (9)
- Raguel: ^ Nice one Byron! I’m reading through the NYT picks, they’re good!
- bigWOWO: The Times had an Op-Ed by the President of the RIAA, and I commented. My comment was picked as a...
- Raguel: Found a great website, take a look at this: https://www.cdt.org/ Why should privacy be important, in an age...
- The Perversity of Human Biodiversity, a.k.a. “Scientific” Racism (402)
- bigWOWO: Here’s an interesting suggestion coming out of MIT: Connectome by Sebastian Seung...
- Battle Hymn of the Kitten Daughter (36)
- Raguel: You know Andre, you and me, I think we and a lot of other folks may have gone through some pretty harrowing...
- Andre M. Smith: Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew....
- Two podcasts that address racism in the military, and Danny Chen the person (9)
- Raguel: The origins of racism in the American military as described by loudestfuckingazns is accurate. Very recently,...
- bigWOWO: Sorry, Larry, just noticed that the spam robot junked your comment. Approved!
- bigWOWO: Agreed. It just has more weight if you include your name. Not that the ideas are any less valid, but it just...
- Facebook IPO (5)
- King: Actually WOWO, I bump into plenty of Asians up at the Art Center College of Design http://www.artcenter.edu/a...
- bigWOWO: Agree with King. This might not be a bad thing for Asian Americans to hear about. We can jump off the STEM...
- Raguel: People are too accustomed to thinking about value only in terms of money. Even artists are guilty of it. Some...
- Activism is as activism does (10)
- trolldetector: Brooks also goes onto say ‘You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of...
- bigWOWO: By the way, speaking of activism, there was a great David Brooks column recently. He talks about how people...
- Raguel: I have no experience whatsoever with activism. I simply do not feel safe participating in it. There is always...
- How to Win a Streetfight (18)
- bigWOWO: No worries. I feel the same way. Nothing against her, but just doubtful.
- Raguel: Hi Byron! I’ve been occupied doing a lot of reading and thinking recently. I suppose its just another...
- bigWOWO: Hey Raguel, What about your comments on ASSK?
I agree with everything you said. About #1…I think...
- UFC 117 Sonnen vs. Silva Recap (1)
- bigWOWO: I think Michael Bisping solved the Chael Sonnen puzzle today, even though he lost a controversial decision....
- 6 on 1 Beatdown of Asian Man (36)
- King: “I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima...
- SWR: Apparently the girl in the second video was not the girl who filmed the fight. It was probably unwise of her to...
- Raguel: I mean I look around me and 99% of the time there are no women that look like or dress like Adriana Lima in...
- Selfish Reasons To Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (Review) (6)
- bigWOWO: Jeff, You called it! They were (if I recall correctly) 7 (twins) and 2. He’s still in the honeymoon...
- jeffat8asians: “Overpaying?” With the possible exception of college tuition (and even that is arguable),...
- Hitler: Kids suck lol.
- The Asian Rock Thread (16)
- ben: I’ve been getting into Asian rock music recently so thank you all very much for uploading all these videos.
- Simple Pickup on ABC News (132)
- “Lazy” Americans and the Decline of the American Middle Class (6)
- bigWOWO: But kobu, how can we have literature and art without money to support artists and writers? About...
- kobukson: I don’t know why everyone seems to think the notion of the decline of the middle class is such a bad...
- bigWOWO: There are a lot of veterans (supposedly) on that site. I can kind of understand it–military guys are...
- Aung Sung Suu Kyi Movie with Michelle Yeoh (45)
- bigWOWO: Eurasian, Lee Kuan Yew has always been upfront about Singapore’s hybrid system. To the best of my...
- Eurasian Sensation: @ BigWowo: New governments following independence or a major power struggle often have the sort...
- N: @bww And ironically, one of the rare democratic successes in the region that is Singapore behaves much closer to a...
- Holy Jesus, Jeremy (7)
Monthly Archives: May 2009
First Missing Child on a Milk Carton Still Missing
Etan Patz, first missing child to appear on a milk carton
Does everyone remember the missing kids on milk cartons during the 80′s? It looks like the very first missing child on a milk carton is still missing after 30 years. It looks like the authorities are relatively certain they know who was involved with his disappearance, but the family has yet to find closure.
Piracy Hits Print Media
Writers have remained relatively unscathed and unaffected by digital piracy. Until now. With the proliferation of E-books and digital devices, it’s only a matter of time before writers will face the same problems as recording artists and filmmakers. From the Times article:
Until recently, publishers believed books were relatively safe from piracy because it was so labor-intensive to scan each page to convert a book to a digital file. What’s more, reading books on the computer was relatively unappealing compared with a printed version.
"What Color is That Baby?"
(picture from here)
Bob Herbert writes a poignant Op-Ed about media coverage and race in today’s NY Times.
“What color is that baby?” he asked.
A tremendous silence fell over the room. Everyone understood what he meant. If the baby was white, the chances were much better that the story was worth big play. It might be something to get excited about.
American Idol Losing Viewers but Making More Money
I never understood the appeal of American Idol, and I still don’t. Why do people like watching other people sing and get criticized for it? It makes no sense to me. With Survivor, at least there are athletic and politicking competitions. With the Amazing Race, you get to see the world. With Idol, you get to see people singing unoriginal songs, you get to hear them sing off-key, and you get to hear nasty people criticize them. Where is the joy in that?
Miles from Nowhere
(picture from Nami Mun’s Facebook Group)
bigWOWO Rating: Asian American Gold
Yes, the Asian girl runaway who becomes a drug addict and streetwalker has been done before. Yes, there’s no way that this novel will become a rallying cause for Asian American activists–”Another story about an Asian woman selling and shooting up her body?”
Congratulations, Tammy and Victor Jih
Tammy and Victor Jih, Winners of the Amazing Race
Your win was truly amazing and brought some highly entertaining episodes as Chinese Americans racing through China. It was suspenseful, and you went head to head against some truly phenomenal competition, especially Jen/Kisha and Luke/Margie. In the end, you pulled through. You made it happen. Congratulations.
Edit 5/11: See video below (I’d embed it, but it looks like it plays automatically, and no one wants that…):
"The Most Powerful International Public Health Official in History"
The NY Times had a good profile of Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, who has been in the news recently because of her spearheading her organization’s effort to prevent the spread of swine flu. According to the Times, she is perhaps “the most powerful international public health official in history.” In this day and age of global travel and business, it’s important for people to work together to prevent diseases from spreading. I’ve read nothing but positive things about Dr. Chan in the media, and it seems that swine flu has been relatively under control in recent days.
Portland Cheap Eating
They had an interesting article on Portland cheap eats yesterday in the NY Times. I’ve eaten at the stands before, but I seriously never knew that it extended that deep. If any of you visit Portland, I know where I’m taking you.
I need to try that blue burger in the video. I think my own burgers are the best in the world–I know I’m better than anything I’ve found so far–but I always welcome competition!
Gays in the Military
So let me get this straight–Dan Choi is an Iraq veteran, he graduated from West Point, he’s fluent in Arabic, he actually wants to be deployed, and yet they’re firing him only because he happens to be attracted to men? Sounds like a big ol’ waste of my taxpayer money to me. Sounds like a big ol’ waste of human resources by the American military. I hope Obama does something about this ridiculousness.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (Review)
bigWOWO Rating: Asian American Gold
I finished Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. It was a good book, very sweet and very cute. As one interviewer said of Jamie Ford’s book, it was written about a time when love was really love, and it was refreshing to see that kind of purity in print.
There were a number of factual problems which I couldn’t help but notice. As an amateur historian, I have to point certain anachronisms, factual bloopers, and stylistic questions. These didn’t ruin the story, but fixing them could’ve improved it:
